Attorney Hiked Grand Canyon Rim-to-River in One Day at Age 66

Before working with Flipping 50 and Deborah, I was in a perpetual state of code red. I had work demands, long hours, stress, constant anxiety over my parents health. And I lived on a diet of chocolate and coffee when I was at work. And I felt myself losing control and losing fitness. I was an attorney with a busy litigation practice. On top of that I was a daughter with the most amazing but aging parents. And I was watching them physically decline, feeling helpless about it, trying to help them through their issues. I just feeling like I wasn't succeeding on any level. Then I got a reality check and a huge wake up call. My longtime friend and my executive assistant at work didn't show up for work for two days, and we became concerned. We called police to do a welfare check. And I met police at her house, and we found that she had passed away in her sleep. She was 61. She was strong, she was dynamic, she was slim. She was smart, and she was gone. And at that point I decided that I had to face my own mortality as well as that of my parents. And I needed to make some changes that were going to be pretty significant in my life. And that's when I decided to contact Debra and ask her to train me and join Flipping 50. What made me say yes to working with Debra was obviously my own plan wasn't working. What she said on her channel resonated with me and made sense to me in a way that nothing else had. Her philosophy and her programs held infinite hope and possibilities for me over the course of my lifetime. And I just had to make the decision to go with it. I was going to be in it for a lifetime. And the cost of the investment amortized over my life was really not that significant once you thought about it in that way. When I was younger, I did gymnastics, I did diving. And I was following programs that I thought were helping me. And I was probably doing myself more harm than good. I tended to burn out, overtrain, get injured, and not meet my own internal expectations of what I should be doing. What surprised me the most about working with Debra and the Flipping 50 program is that Debra is so relatable, non judgmental. Everything that she does is well executed, well queued, well planned, and you know that if you follow her instructions, you're really not going to make a mistake. The other thing that surprised me is the idea that you would actually program rest and recovery days into your week. That was a concept that was foreign to me, because if you weren't doing the death march every day on the treadmill, you weren't working hard enough, you weren't trying hard enough. And so that was kind of insane to me that I was actually getting better results, but working smarter, not necessarily harder. Although I did put the effort in with the weight training and everything that she had in the program, but it just wasn't as frenetic and exhausting to me as it had been. What I'm able to do now that I couldn't do before I started working with Debra is I'm thinking more about what I put into my body. I'm eating more protein to meet my body's needs and build muscle. I am probably fitter than I've ever been in my life, including when I was younger, because I didn't have the full component of exercises. And if I knew then what I know now, it might have been a lot different. What I found is last year, at the age of 66, I hiked the Grand Canyon from rim to river to rim in one day. And it was the hardest thing that I'd ever done physically, but the most emotionally rewarding thing that I've ever done, because I stretched myself beyond my possibilities. And it wouldn't have been possible without Deborah and her coaching. If someone's on the fence about working with Debra, I would say it's never too late to improve, and it's never too late to get strong and healthy. We all age, but Debra has taught me that you could age well and age gracefully and successfully if you do the right things. And that's cardiovascular fitness, bone density, muscle strength, maintaining and building muscle strength. It's never too late to do that. My parents were an inspiration to me. They were 97 and 98 when they passed away. Four months apart. They were devoted to each other. My father did tell me, it's really hard when your mind makes an appointment that your body can't keep. And that kind stuck in my head. And so the takeaway message is, do everything that you can now to make sure that you can keep the appointments that your mind makes, both now and in the future. And Debra can help you get there.